Plain Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2 beaten eggs
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• 1 cup flour sifted with 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• sufficient flour added to make a soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Roll out, cut into cookies, and bake pale brown in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Cookies. — A cup butter, l A cups sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 cup flour sifted with 1 tea¬ spoon Royal Baking Powder, sufficient flour added to make a soft dough. Roll out, cut into cookies, and bake pale brown in moder¬ ate oven. Jumbles. — 1 cup butter, I cup sugar, 4 eggs, 2 cups flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub together the butter and sugar ; add the beaten eggs, and flour sifted with the powder; flour the board, roll out the dough rather thin, cut with jumble-cutter, or any you may have; roll in sugar, lay out on greased tin; bake in fairly hot oven 10 min¬ utes. Little Chocolate Cakes. — 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup sugar, A cup water, 1 A cups flour, pinch salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons grated choco¬ late melted over hot water, 1 teaspoon ex¬ tract vanilla. Put together as for cake with butter; bake in patty-pans in moderate oven. Oatmeal Cookies. — 1 egg, A cup sugar, A cup sweet cream, A cup milk, H cup fine oat¬ meal, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon salt. Beat egg until light, add sugar, cream and milk, then these to oat¬ meal, flour, powder and salt mixed and sifted. Toss on a floured board, roll thin, cut in shape, bake in moderate oven. ROYAL BAKING POWDER IS ABSOLUTELY PURE 18 THE ROYAL BAKER AND PASTRY COOK Rice Cakes. — A cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, l A cups rice flour, 1 A cups flour, 1 tea¬ spoon Royal Baking Powder, A cup cream, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together 10 minutes; add the butter, melted; sift together flour, rice flour, and the powder, which add to the eggs, etc., with the cream and the extract ; mix into a thin batter, and bake in patty-pans, well greased, in a hot oven, 10 minutes. Cinnamon Cakes. — Whites 4 eggs, A cup sugar, 1 cup flour, A teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 teaspoon ex¬ tract cinnamon. Mix as for cakes without butter, and bake in patty-pans in a quick oven. Ice with water icing flavored with cinnamon extract. Drop Cakes. — 1 cup butter,

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